Where Volcanoes Are Born Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and ...

Volcanoes are one of Earth’s most dramatic wonders bursting with glowing lava, shaking ground and giant clouds of ash. But what actually makes a volcano explode? Scientists say the answer lies deep ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 7 about the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a university. It is Denison University, not Dennison. A corrected version of the ...

The skies over Mayon Volcano in the Philippines have just been declared off-limits to aircraft — and for good reason. With new lava spines forming at the summit and volcanic unrest continuing, ...

A strange seismic event off the coast of Africa has led scientists to a mighty finding: the discovery of the largest underwater volcanic eruption ever recorded. The eruption also may explain a weird ...

Sharks were filmed swimming inside Kavachi, one of the world’s most violent underwater volcanoes, leaving scientists questioning how large predators survive heat, acid and eruptions in an environment ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Small volcanic eruptions help explain a hiatus in global warming this century by dimming sunlight and offsetting a rise in emissions of heat-trapping gases to record highs, a study ...

Tides flowing in a subsurface ocean of molten rock, or magma, could explain why Jupiter’s moon Io appears to have its volcanoes in the “wrong” place. New NASA research implies that oceans beneath the ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Small volcanic eruptions help explain a hiatus in global warming this century by dimming sunlight and offsetting a rise in emissions of heat-trapping gases to record highs, a study ...